Floodland tells the story of Zoe, who lives on her own on an island that used to be part of England before global warming caused the seas to rise. His first book, Floodland, was published in 2000, and it received the Branford-Boase award for the best debut children's novel of that year. According to The Guardian he began writing "seriously" in 1994. Career īefore becoming a full-time author, Sedgwick worked as a bookseller at Heffers, a children's bookstore, and in sales at children's publishers Ragged Bears and Walker Books.
His father died when Sedgwick was twenty years old. He studied mathematics and politics at the University of Bath.
He was also influenced by Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast series, which his father had introduced him to. His mother had once worked in Machynlleth at the Centre for Alternative Technology the area was the setting for Susan Cooper's fantasy series The Dark Rising, and Sedgwick called those books influential for him.
As a child he was shy and recalled being bullied at Sir Roger Manwood's School in Sandwich, Kent an all-boys grammar school. He has one brother, Julian, and a half-sister, Ellie. Marcus Sedgwick was born 8 April 1968 in Preston, a small village in East Kent, England. Printz Award from the American Library Association. edition of his 2011 novel Midwinterblood won the 2014 Michael L. His novels Floodland (2001) won the Branford Boase Award and The Dark Horse (2002) was shortlisted for The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. According to School Library Journal his "most acclaimed titles" were those for young adults. He authored several young adult and children's books and picture books, a work of nonfiction and several novels for adults, and illustrated a collection of myths and a book of folk tales for adults. Marcus Sedgwick (8 April 1968 – 15 November 2022) was a British writer and illustrator. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, young adult
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